No problem or certainly – what do you use? Updated Post!

March 19, 2012

Possibly serendipitous or even more likely because I’ve been consciously looking but a number of articles have come together and made me post this.

Firstly I was delivering an assembly to year 11 students at John Kyrle High School – possibly my biggest ever audience and certainly the biggest screen I have ever used. It was part of the lead up to their GCSE’s – some of what I covered was The power of words – specifically the power that positive words can have personally and for those around you.

Albert Mehrabian’s study is well-known and has been used/reused numerous times. I demonstrated that using positive words can have a direct physical effect – a simple exercise that involved the whole hall and the words ‘euthanasia’ and ‘united’ – you can guess which word had the most positive impact!

Using the correct words in our internal/external dialogue is something that maybe common knowledge – is it common practise?